Most Americans eat meat, but that doesn’t mean that they want the animals destined for their plates to suffer a painful death. Yet U.S. Department of Agriculture records show that every year, almost a million birds are plunged into boiling water by accident because of small failures within the largely mechanized slaughter process. [More]

Liborio Markets in California and Colorado wants to offer its customers freshly killed chickens, electrocuted in a poultry concentration camp out back, then freshly plucked, gutted and served still twitching.